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cgod  ·  3800 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Every Day Is Judgment Day for an Umpire.

I'm comfortable with that opinion. I deal with the late and drunk crowd from a reasonably well compensated position of some respect and I still get plenty of shit. I think an immigrent getting minimum wage in a no respect powerless poistion has it much worse. Don't know how many umpires have been phisicaly assaulted but It's happened to me more than once, including having a gun pulled on me on late shifts.





user-inactivated  ·  3800 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well ... one's a hard job (very, very hard) and one's not. A convenience store worker doesn't go to every shift nervous, unless he happens to live in a very shitty area, and most every convenience store I've been to in a shitty area has the employee working from behind bulletproof glass these days.